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Millions of Turks are voting in elections to decide who runs their biggest cities - and whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can wrest back control from the opposition.
Turkey's economic and social powerhouse, Istanbul, was won by a united opposition five years ago under popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, shattering the president's long run of electoral success.
Now Mr Erdogan, who was born in this megacity of 16 million people, wants it back and the vote is on a knife-edge.
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According to authorities, clashes broke out between two groups in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of the country during local elections in Turkey. The Ministry of Health said one person was killed and twelve others were injured. A local official told AFP that violence broke out in the incident in a village 30 kilometers from the provincial capital Diyarbakir.
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Significantly, the CHP was also on course to win in many of Turkey's other big cities, including Izmir and Bursa, Adana and the resort of Antalya.
President Erdogan, 70, acknowledged the election had not gone as he had hoped, but he told supporters in Ankara it would mark "not an end for us but rather a turning point".
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